Example sentences of "he would [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So how could he not be far more upset than he would admit at the thought of the gap it would leave in his life and the prospect of probably never seeing his father again ? |
| 2 | For half the year , he would sleep at The Kilns . |
| 3 | Probably , in his youth , some tone deaf colleague had told him that he possessed a good voice , ever since when , he would arise at every opportunity , usually by reluctant request , and then po-faced with hand on heart , would bellow ‘ Come into the garden Maude ’ , watched by a captive audience and a proud , watery-eyed wife . |
| 4 | The three men watched the animal snuffling among the elder and then , satisfied that he would nibble at the leaves , they left the stable and turned towards the house . |
| 5 | At Tangier , he would stay at an hotel nearby . ’ |
| 6 | Time and time again he would stare at the ground , hand on hip , if he thought he had received a bad call , and then swallow his anger and play tennis . |
| 7 | Thus , to George 's great indignation , he would arrive at a racecourse to hear that the cup for the 2.30 was about to be presented to the winner by Mrs Frank Coven , when he thought it ought to be presented by Lord Wigg . |
| 8 | Each day he would arrive at the theatre at two or three in the afternoon , long before the 7.30pm performance . |
| 9 | It was in this way that he was thinking when , with Lili by his side and their suitcases on a trolley he would abandon at the tube-station entrance , he looked up and met the eyes of Adam Verne-Smith . |
| 10 | Lawrence Woodward , director of Elm Farm Research Centre , a small newly formed charity set up to research and develop organic agriculture , wrote to Prince Charles asking if he would speak at the first organic food conference to be held in Cirencester in January 1983 . |
| 11 | Through each performance he would stand at the rear of the audience , his arms crossed and his head sunk down into his body as he peered intently at the stage . |
| 12 | He would move at the end of the day . |
| 13 | He took the notebook with him ; sometimes he would sit at a desk or table and write , losing any idea of time or place , roused later by the discovery that his leg had gone numb or he had cramp in his foot . |
| 14 | He would sit at the head of the long table , the various amounts were packed in white paper with the name of the recipient on each . |
| 15 | When the kitchen was clean and the children put to bed , Beth and David would go to the sitting room , where he would sit at the circular table , head bent over documents and rent books . |
| 16 | Their king is Aillen mac Midha , and in the past he would sit at the foot of the Palace ramparts , slender and blue-green , and with the chill faery blood of all the sidh in his veins . |
| 17 | At that point in his life , he would sit at the door of a club when he was playing and he would glare at the people who came in . |
| 18 | During the session Sir John May , the inquiry chairman , announced that he would sit at the inquiry with three lay assessors , and that the government had agreed to the granting of immunity from prosecution to witnesses . |
| 19 | FOR most of this year , Lee Sharpe has wondered if he would play at the top again . |
| 20 | The defender said he would sell at a price of £70,000 . |
| 21 | He would call at the house at random times to see if he could catch his wife in compromising circumstances . |
| 22 | Five feet three , immensely strong — ‘ could pick up a thirteen-stone man by the seat of his pants ’ — a craftsman collier — ‘ he would look at the seam of coal … take a Number Two mandrel [ a half-headed pick ] and if he hit it just right , something like twenty tons of coal would fall out of the coal face ’ — and a man with a ‘ love of words , the longer the better ’ . |
| 23 | If the hon. Gentleman were interested in patient care , instead of opposing NHS trust proposals in principle , he would look at the merits of the proposals and decide whether they should go ahead on the basis of the interests of patient care — and that is precisely what my right hon. Friend will do . |
| 24 | As the hon. Gentleman obviously takes econometric models to bed with him , I wonder whether he would look at the implications of Liberal Democrat policy on one of the small industries to which his party is committed — the armed forces . |
| 25 | They dived into the sand did n't they , so he would survive at the back of the |
| 26 | Now Henry lives near Henley , and while he would sneer at the Hooray Henries crowding that town 's regatta ( in true , no-frills , Aussie style ) , he 's become quite a showman himself . |
| 27 | Mr Pannick said he would argue at the full hearing that Mr Brooke had no power under EC law to do that . |
| 28 | He even had on a collar and tie , which I 'd never seen before and which he would tug at every now and then as if it were too tight . |
| 29 | At that point in his life , he would sit at the door of a club when he was playing and he would glare at the people who came in . |
| 30 | He was looking skywards the way he did as a player : he would flick at the ball with the outside of his left foot while leaning back looking at the sky . |